The Medical Journals of U.S.-Occupied Haiti
This guest post is by Matthew Davidson, a doctoral candidate at the University of Miami and the 2019 Paul Klemperer Fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine. His research examines public health in...
View ArticleColor Your Heart Out at the Museum Mile Festival
The New York Academy of Medicine is once again participating in the annual Museum Mile Festival! This year’s event will be held on Tuesday, June 11th from 6:00pm-9:00pm and will feature lots of fun...
View Article“Filth is the Arch Enemy of Health”: The Committee on Public Health and Waste...
This guest post is by Tina Peabody, 2019 Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine, and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Albany, SUNY focusing on the...
View ArticleApply for Our 2020 Fellowships
We’re pleased to announce that our two annual fellowships are open to applications! The Academy Library offers two annual research fellowships, the Paul Klemperer Fellowship in the History of Medicine...
View ArticleGet Your Primary Sources! Public Health in Modern America & Archives of...
By Robin Naughton, PhD The New York Academy of Medicine Library has closed stacks, and as such, the serendipitous nature of browsing the shelves and discovering a gem stuck between two unlikely...
View ArticleHow Long Will We Wait? A Recap of Our Latest Race & Health Series Event
This guest post is by Dr. Danielle Laraque-Arena, the 2019 Scholar in Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine. She is the tenured Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatric & Behavioral Sciences,...
View ArticleDesegregating Harlem Hospital: A Centennial
This guest post is from Adam Biggs, faculty at the University of South Carolina Lancaster and panelist at the recent Academy Race & Health series event, “How Long Will We Wait? The Desegregation of...
View ArticleOpium in the Library: A ‘Smorgasbord’ of Twentieth-Century Understandings of...
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer “For sale in the open market — misery, degradation, crime, shame, disgrace, and untold suffering — who’ll buy, who’ll buy? … All the world, apparently.”[1] In her...
View ArticleOpium in the Library: Remedy & Reverie in the 18th and 19th Centuries
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer Writing on opium and opioids in the 20th century, particularly in the United States, was often characterized by an interest in the mechanisms of addiction, a...
View ArticleMonstrosity and Motherhood in Seventeenth-Century English Print
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer While today many of us would relegate monsters to fantasy books and Halloween decor, to people in seventeenth-century England, monsters were very real....
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The Michael M. Davis Papers and Economics in Medicine
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services & Outreach Librarian Recently, the Academy hosted a talk between Paul Krugman and Tsung-Mei Cheng, entitled “Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of...
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The Women’s Field Army: A Precursor to the American Cancer Society
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian On November 7, The New York Academy of Medicine had its Annual Discourse, where Dr. Otis W. Brawley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of...
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John Locke’s Copy of The Secret Miracles of Nature and the NYAM Library
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer In a 1581 copy that The New York Academy of Medicine Library holds of Levinus Lemnius’s De Miraculis Occultis Naturae (or The Secret Miracles of Nature), one can...
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Holiday Recipes from Our Cookery Collection
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian It’s that time of year, when big batches of sweet treats are put in the oven, entrées that can feed an army are lovingly prepared, and fun...
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Sir William Osler: A Bibliophilic Benefactor
Photograph of William Osler. Osler, W., & Pollard, A. W. (1923). Incunabula medica: A study of the earliest printed medical books 1467–1480. Oxford: Bibliographical Society. NYAM Collection....
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Highlighting NYAM Women in Medical History: Sara Josephine Baker, MD, DrPh
By Hannah Johnston, Library Volunteer This the first entry in our series on female New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Fellows and their contributions to society. Please also see our biographical...
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The Public Health Origins of Census Data Collection
By Paul Theerman, Director Every 10 years, the Federal census counts the country’s population. The count is mandated in the Constitution in order to distribute political power, as the census leads to...
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Digitization Pilot: The Robert Matz Hospital Postcard Collection
By Robin Naughton, Senior Digital Program Manager The front of a postcard of Roosevelt Hospital. NYAM Collection. The back of the postcard, with a message from a patient of the hospital. NYAM...
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Highlighting NYAM Women in Medical History: Martha Wollstein, MD
By Andrea Byrne, Digital Technical Specialist, Academy Library Coming to terms with the COVID-19 pandemic needs the work of many skilled and dedicated physicians, researchers, and health professionals....
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Quarantine in Nineteenth-Century New York
By Lorna Ebner, Guest Contributor, Stony Brook University As COVID-19 races through New York, we asked Lorna Ebner to tell us about previous attempts to mitigate disease in the city. Ms. Ebner is a PhD...
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